good times...

Nice moment there.

I drove my bicycle seven or eight KM's there for a meeting with the director and facilities manager.  Where's 'there'? 

Well, it's the Burlington 'Music Center', home to Canada's largest (if you can believe it) 'rehearsal hall'.  It's also home to the Burlington 'Teen Tour Band' a World renowned marching band.

It also seats 200 easy and the director told me he thinks I can get 300 in there if I really squeeze 'em in.  It's also cheap as all get out and right in the central library complex in our town which means it's loaded with parking.

It doesn't look amazing but today was a big step towards helping that side of things out.

See, it looks like they're going to let us 1) put up BIG signage (branded for THE WELL and connected to each monthly sermon series) 2) hang a screen and projector permanently (they're happy to use it) and 3) hang eight par cans and four source 4's permanently as well.

I can't even begin to say how awesome this is.

Set up and tear down is one of the toughest parts of getting a new church off the ground.  The more work you can eliminate the better off you're going to be to start.  So, to be able to come in, pull down the screen turn 'on' the projector on, set up some blacks beside it and 'go' is going to be unbelievable. 

Yes, they will set the chairs up for us.

It's amazing.  It's one of those things that was miraculously 'provided' for us and that's deeply comforting.  The way that happened was we did the work we always do, checking place after place after place getting rejected all the while but doing our best to stay full of hope and high spirits.  Then, just as we were starting to feel like this might be another 'brick wall' we decided to re-call all the places we'd started with and this one just popped up.

"Sure we'd love to have you..."

And it looks like the rest is going to be history.

Just wanted to encourage you to keep pushing 'cause sometimes good things start happening.

And, if you're around come September, bring a bag lunch so you can lie under the tree I was lying under today after one of our first few services at...

THE WELL.

Crazy.

T